Hundreds of scientific research papers published by Australian scientists have been found to be unreliable or compromised, fuelling calls for a national science watchdog.

Six limiting maxims PhD students should avoid.

Ten years ago, a neuroscientist said that within a decade he could simulate a human brain. Spoiler: It didn't happen.

The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes - and how much danger women are in.

Just 28% of the world’s researchers are women, but Eastern Europe bucks this global trend. The Soviet legacy is part of the reason.

Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years.

Animal-rights group's campaign to end forced-swim tests comes amid debate over whether method is overused.

With open access Plan S approaching, learned society journals are expected to fall in hard times.

Plan S is a manifesto for full and immediate Open Access set out by a coalition of research funders. It has been discussed a lot recently, but what, exactly, does it involve?

In today's ecosystem of online science publications, it can be hard to tell what qualifies as journalism and what doesn't. Does it matter?

Science journalist attends a predatory conference and interviews scientists involved.

At the University of North Carolina, specialized counselors serve the school's biomedical Ph.D. students.

LIBER appreciates the latest guidance, which matches its strategic goal of making Open Access the main form of scholarly communication by 2020. At the same time, it recognises the complexities and challenges faced by research libraries to implement publishing or update services to follow Plan S.

In the coming months, Scholastica will be introducing product improvements to help journals comply with the Plan S guidelines. In this post, we overview steps journals using Scholastica's open access publishing platform can take to start preparing for Plan S.

This dataset provides a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving. It is found that these costs range from less than US$200 per article in modern, large scale publishing platforms using post-publication peer-review, to about US$1,000 per article in prestigious journals with rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication costs for a representative scholarly article today come to lie at around US$400. The additional non-publication cost items that make up the difference between publication costs and final price are discussed. The dataset refers to calculations about the scenarios described in a publication about that topic.

The impacts of grief are long-lasting, but support from colleagues provides some relief.

It was tough for Lia Paola Zambetti to leave the bench after dreaming for more than a decade of becoming a scientist, and reaching her goal. But now she enjoys her work's broader impact.

The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) is a community of 60+ not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. One of the aims of the collective is to legitimise scholar-led publishing as an important alternative model for open access.

The distinct burden of being a climate scientist.

Especially in education and research, electronic resources, digital tools and novel technologies have profoundly altered the way and the speed at which we acquire and share our knowledge. However, this infrastructure goes vastly unnoticed by most of us.

From mentoring to focus groups ethnic minority academics and students are under pressure to close the 13% attainment gap.

The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics.

Researchers identified nearly 400 common medical practices and theories that were contradicted by rigorous studies. Here are some of the most notable findings.

Analysis of data on drug-gene interactions suggests that decentralized collaboration will increase the robustness of scientific findings in biomedical research.

Agreement will allow for continued explorations between Elsevier, VSNU, NFU and NWO on how to work together toward future Dutch open science infrastructure services.

Global effort to combat research misconduct gathers pace.

A path forward for open access in the humanities and social sciences.

Former students recount their experiences dropping out.

The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases.

Most plant life survived the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl - and they have a lack of legs to thank for it.